Birth, Death, and Rebirth: (Re-)Generation As Text’

Literature and Cultural Studies Section: ‘Birth, Death, and Rebirth: (Re-)Generation as Text’

Thursday, 8 June 2017

From 14.00 REGISTRATION (Central University Library, Calea Victoriei 88) 14.30-15.00 Formal opening and welcome (Central University Library) Mircea Dumitru, Rector of the University of Bucharest Liviu Franga, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures Octavian Roske, Head of the Department of English 15.00-16.30 Keynote speaker: Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware, The Birth of Cinema, and Some Lesser Births (Central University Library) 16.30-17.00 COFFEE BREAK (Faculty of Foreign Languages, Str. Pitar Moş 7-13) James Joyce room American Studies room British Studies room Mark Twain room 17.00-19.00 Chair: Scott Sprenger Chair: Anamaria Schwab Chair: Yaroslava Evseeva Chair: Shruti Das Andreea Smedescu, University of Diana Benea, University of Bucharest, Yaroslava Evseeva, Institute of Scientific Adriana Elena Stoican , Bucharest Bucharest, The Sign of Darkness in the Exhausted Postmodernism and Post- Information on Social Sciences of the University of Economic Studies, Racial Discourse of George Eliot ironic Replenishment in David Foster Russian Academy of Sciences, Cultural Dissolution and Re(birth) in Gal Manor, Levinsky College, Tel Aviv, Wallace’s Short Fiction Contemporary Views on ‘Good Death’: Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland Robert Browning’s ‘A Death in the Radu Surdulescu, University of Positive Attitudes Towards Death and Shruti Das, Berhampur University, Desert’: The Power of the Poetic Word Bucharest, The Billionaires’ Road to Dying in Today’s Social Gerontological Draupadi: An Image Born and Reborn Scott Sprenger, Lindquist College of Arts Disappearance in Don DeLillo’s Novels Thought in Indian Feminist Fiction and Humanities, Spiritual Death, Cosmopolis and Zero K Kirsten Brukamp, Protestant University Monica Manolachi, University of Realist Rebirth: Gothic Subjectivity in Anamaria Schwab, University of of Applied Sciences, Ludwigsburg, Bucharest, Birth, Death and Rebirth in the Novels of Balzac Bucharest, Afterlives: Life After Death Rebirth as Social Bot via Text The Fifth Figure by Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze Cristian Vîjea, University of Bucharest, in Two Recent American Novels (E. L. Messages: Artificial Intelligence Cristina Diamant, Babeș-Bolyai Resurrection of Moral Values in Doctorow’s The Waterworks and Don Mimics Individual Writing Style of the University, Cluj-Napoca, Archiva(b)l(e) Wuthering Heights DeLillo’s Zero K) Dead Bodies and Cyber Afterlife in David Raluca Andreescu, University of Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas Bucharest, ‘Nobody gets out alive. This place just a big coffin’: On Death and Dying in American Prisons 19.00 OPENING RECEPTION and registration (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu 46)

Friday, 9 June 2017

9.00-18.00 REGISTRATION (1st floor) James Joyce room American Studies room British Studies room Mark Twain room 9.30-11.00 Chair: Octavian Gabor Chair: Stephanie McKenzie Chair: Alexandra Ileana Bacalu Chair: Anat Koplowitz-Breier Malek Mohammad, American Cornelia Vlaicu, Independent scholar, Monica Ruset Oanca, University of Anat Koplowitz-Breier, Bar Ilan University of Kuwait, Death and the ‘Tragic incidents and surprising Bucharest, Meaningful Deaths: University, Ramat-Gan, Escaping Essence of Narrative in Fyodor redemptions’: Of Death and Rebirth in Martyrdom in La Queste del Saint Death: The Treatment of Rejuvenation Dostoevsky and J. M. Coetzee Louise Erdrich’s The Painted Drum Graal and Immortality in World Literature Radu Stoica, University of Bucharest, Léna Remy-Kovach, Albert-Ludwigs Jonathan McCreedy, Sofia University Carmen Dominte, National University of The Rebirth of Dostoyevsky and the Universität Freiburg, Birth, Death, (St. Kliment Ohridski), Birth, Death and Music, Bucharest, The Leitmotif of Question of Authority in J. M. Healing: Cycles and Repetitions in ‘Re-birth’ in the Marquis de Sade’s Death: From Text and Music to Film Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Justine and Juliette Elena Nistor , University of Agronomic Octavian Gabor, Methodist College, Queen Alexandra Ileana Bacalu, University of Sciences and Veternary Medicine of Peoria, The Rediscovery of the Self Stephanie McKenzie, Memorial Bucharest, The Re-Emergence of Stoic Bucharest, ‘The Flower of Cities All’: Through Pregnancy: Dostoevsky’s University of Newfoundland, The Case Prescriptions for the Imagination in Poetic Chronicles of London Life, Death Crime and Punishment and the of Annabel, Intersex Child: Death and the Scottish Enlightenment and Resurrection Theandric Nature of a Human Being Rebirth in Canadian Author Kathleen Winter’s Annabel 11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson room) 11.30-13.00 Keynote speaker: Nicolas Tredell, University of Sussex & Palgrave Macmillan, Rites, Resurrections and (Re)Writings: Birth, Death and Rebirth in Ulysses and The Waste Land (Mark Twain room) 13.00-14.00 LUNCH (Emerson room) 14.00-15.30 Keynote speaker: Vera M. Kutzinski, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, What the Living Owe the Dead: William Harris’s Visions of Death (Mark Twain room) 15.30-15.50 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson room) Friday, 9 June (Continued)

James Joyce room American Studies room British Studies room Mark Twain room 15.50-17.20 RSAA workshop: Chair: Octavian Roske Chair: Nicolas Tredell Chair: Mark Cronlund Anderson Rebirth of National(ist) Discourse* Tania Cristina Peptan, University of Ioana Zirra, University of Bucharest, The Nuriye Akkaş, Namık Kemal University, Craiova, Detection and Death: Death of the Narrator and the Tekirdağ, From Death to Birth and Keynote speaker: Borgesian Reconfigurations of Poe Author’s Rebirth as a Twofold Regeneration and Pronatalism in Post- Playwright’s Self-Reflexive Actant in Apocalyptic Films Noemi Marin, Florida Atlantic Octavian Roske, University of Bucharest, James Joyce’s Ulysses University, ‘The Cause Is Not Ours, but God’s’: The Mark Cronlund Anderson , University of Rise and Fall of the Confederate State, Ennio Ravasio, Independent scholar, Regina, How Zombies Mythically Rebirth of ‘The People’: Revisiting 1861-1865 Incarnation and Reincarnation in Regenerate America American Rhetorical Theories on Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake Audience Vlad-Eugen Neagu, University of Roxana Paula Trandafir, University of Bucharest, ‘I Had Died and Been Bucharest, Regeneration and Reborn Numberless Times’. Aspects of rethinking narratives in the science Subject Dislocation in Jack Kerouac’s fiction series Doctor Who On the Road and John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat 17.20-17.40 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson room) 17.40-19.40 RSAA workshop: (Continued)* Chair: Anca Mitroi Sprenger Chair: Ioana Cosma Chair: Oana-Alis Zaharia Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Miami Nataliya Gorbina, Technische Alina Bottez, University of Bucharest, Rebirth of National(ist) Discourse: A University, Ohio, Chuck Norris vs. Universität Dortmund, The Aesthetics Fake Deaths, Fishy Births and Rhetorical Journey between Populist Communism (2015): An Ostalgic of Giotto’s ‘Perfect Circle’ in Iris Bewildering Afterdeaths: Shakespeare and National Identity Appeals Fantasy about ‘the End of History’ Murdoch’s The Sandcastle and Opera Anca Mitroi Sprenger, Brigham Young Ioana Cosma, University of Piteşti, Oana-Alis Zaharia, Dimitrie Cantemir Participants: University, Death and Sacrifice in Resurrecting the Word. The University, Bucharest, Translation and Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Romanian Contemporary Cinema Phenomenology of the Gift in Norman the (Re-)Birth of the Text: John Florio’s University of Bucharest Mihaela Precup, University of Mailer’s The Gospel According to the Translation of Montaigne’s Essays Octav Gabor, Methodist College, Peoria Bucharest, ‘Emasculated by the Diaper Son and in Colm Toibin’s The Iuliana Tănase, University of Bucharest, Noemi Marin, Florida Atlantic University Bag’: Middle Age and the Vulnerability Testament of Mary (Re)births of the Renaissance Ideal Marie-Louise Paulesc, Arizona State of the Paternal Body in Joe Vision University Ollmann’s Mid-Life (2011) Bogdan Ştefănescu, University of Bucharest

Saturday, 10 June 2017

9.00-18.00 REGISTRATION (1st floor) James Joyce room American Studies room British Studies room Mark Twain room Room 2 9.30-11.00 Chair: Alina Cojocaru Chair: Cristina Băniceru Chair: Monica Bottez Chair: Ştefan Colceriu Chair: Lucía Gloria Vázquez Cristina-Alexandra Drăgoi, Cristina Băniceru, West Maja Ćuk , Alfa BK University, Arielle Tetreault, University of Rodríguez University of Bucharest, University of Timișoara, Belgrade, Symbolic Winnipeg, ‘Don’t Talk to Lucía Gloria Vázquez Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: Death and (re)birth in Kate Regeneration and Strangers’: Notions of Death, Rodríguez, University The Birth of the Reader as an Chopin’s The Awakening Reconstruction of Female Monstrosity, Security and the Complutense of Madrid, Author of a Reconfigured Plot Anca Peiu, University of Identity in Margaret ‘Other’ in the Folk Narrative Pastiche, Irony and Alina Cojocaru, Ovidius Bucharest, Narcissistic Atwood’s Novels Ştefan Colceriu, New Europe Hybridization in Brick (2005): University of Constanța, The Suicide: Ernest Hemingway Monica Bottez, University of College Bucharest / Institute When High-school Films Meet Regeneration and Re- between Existential Narrative Bucharest, The Symbolism of of Linguistics (Romanian Neo-noir’ experience of London in and the Feminine Paradox Rebirth in Margaret Atwood’s Academy), The Way from Life Monica Alina Toma, University Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor Surfacing through Death to Real Life: of Bucharest, Birth, Death and London: The Biography Adela Livia Catană, Military Reading an Orphic Gold and Rebirth in Lois Lowry’s Eliana Ionoaia, University of Technical Academy, Tablet from the 4th Century Dystopian Novel The Giver Bucharest, The Chamber of Bucharest, Birth, Death, and BCE (Hipponion) Echoes and the Afterlife of Rebirth: Epipsyche in Daniela Brown, University of Biofiction in Peter Ackroyd’s MaddAddam and The Hunger Bucharest, Birth, Death, and The Last Testament of Oscar Games Rebirth in the Split Wilde Geography of Othello 11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson room) 11.30-13.00 Keynote speaker: Daniela Zaharia, University of Bucharest, Escaping Life, Escaping Death: Man’s Destiny in Ancient Eastern Mythologies (Mark Twain room) 13.00-14.00 LUNCH (Emerson room) 14.00-15.30 Keynote speaker: Chris Louttit, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Adapting the Classic Novel for the YouTube Generation (Mark Twain room) 15.30-15.50 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson room) Saturday, 10 June (continued)

James Joyce room American Studies room British Studies room Mark Twain room 15.50-17.20 Chair: Andreea Paris-Popa Chair: Roxana Elena Doncu Chair: Mihaela Irimia Chair: Paola Attolino Ruxanda Topor, University of Bucharest, Andrei Nae, University of Bucharest, Mihaela Irimia, University of Bucharest, Mihaela Cel-Mare, University of Romantic Natural History: A Vision of From Horror to Survival Horror: The Birth, Death and Rebirth in Literary Bucharest, A Rebirth Through Two Birth, Evolution of Life-Forms and Remediation of Ridley Scott’s Alien and Cultural History: Again about Adaptations for the 21st Century: E.M. Death in English Romantic Poetry into the video game Alien: Isolation Period and Periodization Forster’s Novel A Room with a View Andreea Paris-Popa, University of Diana Melnic & Vlad Melnic, Babeș- Maurice N. Fadel, New Bulgarian Lucia Opreanu, Ovidius University of Bucharest, Urizen, Moloch and the Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Saved University, Sofia, ‘Death’ and ‘Rebirth’ Constanţa, Beyond the Shades of Shadowy Sleep of Death Games and Respawn Timers: The of Reality in Deconstruction Pemberley: Pursuing Mr. Darcy among Nicolae-Andrei Popa, University of Dilemma of Representing Death in Dragoş Ivana, University of Bucharest, Recent Reincarnations and Upgrades Bucharest, The Sublime and Finitude Video Games Postmetropolis; or, the (Re)Generated Paola Attolino, Università degli Studi di in S.T. Coleridge’s Later Poetic Works Roxana Elena Doncu, Carol Davila City of Late Modernity Salerno, Licence to Adapt: the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Resilience of the 007 Narration in Bucharest, Alluring Death: The Casino Royale Mystery of the Dead Body in Benjamin Black’s ‘Quirke’ Series 17.20-17.40 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson room) Saturday, 10 June (continued)

James Joyce room American Studies room British Studies room Mark Twain room 17.40 - Workshop: Narratives of Death and (Re- Chair: Mihaela Paraschivescu Chair: Simone Rebora Chair: Radu Surdulescu 19.40 )Birth: Cycles of Violence in American Gabriela Drîmbă, University of Gabriela Debita, Dunărea de Jos Cristina Chevereșan, West University of Popular Culture† Bucharest, The Church of the Holy University of Galaţi, ‘Forest Timișoara, Literal and Symbolic Deaths Chair: Dragoș Manea Paraskeve (1785, Ibănești, Olt). A unexplored, unending’: The Labyrinth of the Self in Philip Roth’s The Human Dragoș Manea, University of Bucharest, Testimony of Spiritual Rebirth From in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Stain On the Representation of War Crime: Above Atuan Diana-Andreea Novăceanu, University Über (Gillen, 2013–) and the Mihai Stroe, University of Bucharest, Irina Rață, Dunărea de Jos University of of Bucharest, To Live and Die in Front Implicated Subject Constantin Brâncuși and the Romantic Galați, The motifs of death and of the Camera: Robert Mapplethorpe’s Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Programme resurrection in Neil Gaiman’s works Perfect Moment University of Bucharest, Violence, Dana Radler, Bucharest University of Simone Rebora, University of Göttingen, Laura Monica Rădulescu, University of Death and Rebirth in Battlestar Economic Studies, Gates, Freedom and Rebirth/Ingestion of Literary Genres in Bucharest, ‘No God. No Father Galactica: The Case of Kara Thrace Healing in Panait Istrati’s Stories Contemporary Fantasy Fiction Christmas. No fairies. No Narnia’: the Iulia Nentu, University of Bucharest, Mihaela Paraschivescu, Independent Politics of Violence, Trauma and Death Stereotypes of Russian Violence in scholar, Coping with Temporality: in Sarah Kane’s Blasted John Steinbeck’s A Russian Journal Mircea Eliade’s Mythical and Fictional Eszter Szép, Eötvös Loránd University, Reading of Life and Death Budapest, Comics and Haptic Reading: Bodies in Joe Sacco’s The Great War 20.00 CLOSING DINNER (La Cena, Str. Maria Rosetti 1)

* Workshop organized in collaboration with the Romanian Studies Association of America † This workshop is part of UEFISCDI grant PN-II-RU-TE 2014-4-0609, Representations of Violence in Contemporary American Popular Culture (project coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Precup).

Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Section

Parallel Session: SYNTAX, SEMANTICS, PHONOLOGY, ACQUISITION Thursday, June 8th 2017, Pushkin Hall

From 14.00 REGISTRATION (Central University Library) 14.30-15.00 Formal opening and welcome (Central University Library) Mircea Dumitru, Rector of the University of Bucharest Liviu Franga, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures Octavian Roske, Head of the Department of English

15.30-16.30 Keynote Speaker (Pushkin Hall): Prof. Marcel den Dikken, Department of English Linguistics SEAS, Eötvös Loránd University On Raising and Predication 16.30-17.00 Coffee Break Chair: Maura Cotfas, University of Bucharest 17.00-17.30 Ștefania Costea, University of Bucharest, Adina Dragomirescu & Alexandru Nicolae, Iorgu Iordan‒Al. Rosetti Institute of Linguistics & University of Bucharest, Preverbal subjects in Moldovan Daco-Romanian and in Istro-Romanian 17.30-18.00 Ionuț Geană, University of Bucharest & Iorgu Iordan‒Al. Rosetti Institute of Linguistics, Being Impersonal in Istro-Romanian: A Corpus-Based Analysis 18.00-18.30 Vince Di Caro, Ca' Foscari University of Venice , A macro-comparative analysis of Sicilian and Arabic Pseudo-Coordination with motion verb ‘go’ 19.00 Opening Reception and Registration (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu) 46

Parallel Session: TRANSLATION STUDIES AND PRAGMATICS ‘Compensating Translation, Dissociating Interpretation’ Thursday, 8th June 2017, Council Hall

Chair: Roxana-Cristina Petcu, University of Bucharest 15.15-16.15 Keynote Speaker (Council Hall): Prof. Cornelia Ilie, Malmö University ‘He can lead a protest, I’m leading a country’: Challenging gender and power stereotypes in parliamentary discourse 16.15-16.45 Roxana-Cristina Petcu & Mihaela Zamfirescu, University of Bucharest, Romanian, Negative Concord Language, problems in Translation and Conference Interpreting 16.45-17.15 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Miruna Duminecioiu, University of Bucharest 17.15-17.45 Alexey Razduev, Tambov State University, Interpretative Potential of scientific-technical (nanotechnology) terms on the Basis of their metaphorical and metonymical use 17.45-18.15 Vasiliki Argyroupolou & G.S. Ypsladir, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Persuasive Strategies in argumentative/ persuasive discourse written in Italian by Greek second language learners 18.15-18.45 Aurel Onisim Lehaci, University of Bucharest, Jesus’ Parabolic Form of Discourse–A cognitive Linguistic Analysis 19.00 Opening reception and registration (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu, 46)

Parallel Session: SYNTAX, SEMANTICS, PHONOLOGY, ACQUISITION Friday, 9th June 2017, Pushkin Hall

From 09.00 REGISTRATION Chair: Alexandra Cornilescu, University of Bucharest 09.30-10.30 Plenary Session: Prof. Luigi Rizzi, Université de Genève & Università degli Studi di Siena Cartography and Explanation: the Role of Locality, Labelling and Interpreting Principles 10.30 -11.00 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Mihaela Tanase-Dogaru, University of Bucharest 11.30-12.00 Carmen Dobrovie Sorin, Paris Diderot University, Implicit Agents and the Person Constraint on SE Passives 12.00-12.30 Adina Camelia Bleotu, University of Bucharest, How wrong is your existential? What (un)grammaticality judgments can tell us about – Upward vs. Downward Agree 12.30-13.00 Alexandra Cornilescu & Maria Aurelia Cotfas, University of Bucharest, Clause Size and the Syntax of the Subject: Infinitive Complements 13.00-14.30 LUNCH BREAK 14.30-15.30 Plenary Session Prof. Adriana Belletti, Université de Genève & Università degli Studi di Siena A-Marking of Topics in the Italian Left Periphery Chair: Ioana Stoicescu, University of Bucharest 15.30-16.00 Maria Aurelia Cotfas, University of Bucharest, Remarks on the Left Periphery of Subjunctive Complements (& Complementizer Delition) 16.00-16.30 Ion Giurgea, Iorgu Iordan-Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Verum focus in Romanian: prosodic and syntactic effects 16.30-17.00 Lorena David, University of Bucharest, Focus on Restrictive Pentru că-Clauses 17.00-17.30 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Adina Camelia Bleotu, University of Bucharest 17.30-18.00 Imola-Ágnes Farkas, Babes-Bolyai University, Property Scales and Delimited Events in Hungarian

18.00-18.30 Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru & Mihaela Zamfirescu, University of Bucharest, Grammatical Polarity Sensitive Items in Romanian – Experimental results 18.30-19.00 Nemes Borbála, Babeș-Bolyai University, Numeral + Noun Constructions in Hungarian

Parallel Session: TRANSLATION STUDIES AND PRAGMATICS ‘Compensating Translation, Dissociating Interpretation’ Friday, 9th June 2017, Council Hall

From 09.00 REGISTRATION Chair: Alexandra Cornilescu, University of Bucharest 09.30-10.30 Plenary Session (Pushkin Hall): Prof. Luigi Rizzi, Université de Genève & Università degli Studi di Siena Cartography and Explanation: the Role of Locality, Labelling and Interpreting Principles Council Hall 10.30-11.30 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Juliane House, Hellenic American University, USA English as a lingua franca: A threat to multilingual communication and translation? 11.30-12.00 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Mihaela Zamfirescu, University of Bucharest 12.00-12.30 Daniela Ionescu, University of Bucharest, Translational equivalence of idioms 12.30-13.00 Roxana-Cristina Petcu, University of Bucharest , The Second Largest ...... - A Problem In Translation and Interpretation from English into Romanian 13.00-14.30 LUNCH BREAK Chair: Daniela Ionescu, University of Bucharest 14.30-15.00 Anca Florina Lipan, University of Galati, Syntactic Variation and Synonymy 15.00-15.30 Liudmila Babina, Tambov State University, Metaphor in the Figurative Meaning of Plant Names in English and Russian 15.30-16.30 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Miruna Duminecioiu, University of Bucharest 16.30-17.00 Catherine Y. Tabequero, University of Southeastern Philippines/Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Verb Phrase Architecture of Binukid Language 17.00-17.30 Biljana Radić-Bojanić, University of Novi Sad, EFL Vocabulary Learning Strategies among High School Students in Serbia 17.30-18.00 Valentina Budinčić, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Belgrade, Teaching English in the Era of Modern Technology: Internet Resources for Sports English 18.00-18.30 Yang Ke, University of Hong Kong, English as a Medium of Instruction in Sino–foreign Universities of China

SYNTAX, SEMANTICS, PHONOLOGY, ACQUISITION Saturday, 10th June 2017, Pushkin Hall

From 09.00 REGISTRATION (1st Floor) Chair: Adina Camelia Bleotu, University of Bucharest 09.30-10.30 Plenary Session: Prof. Hedde Zeijlstra, Georg-August-University, Göttingen Type of Negative Concord Systems 10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Adina Camelia Bleotu, University of Bucharest 11.00 -11.30 Alexandra Cornilescu & Alina Tigău, University of Bucharest, Landscaping Datives 11.30-12.00 Carmen Mirzea-Vasile, Iorgu Iorda -Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters & Ion Giurgea, Iorgu Iordan-Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romanian adverbs with a special syntax in the comparative 12.00-12.30 Svitlana Antonyul Yudina, Stony Brook University and Chernivtsi National University, Towards a Better Understanding of Objects 12.30-13.00 Alina Resceanu, University of Craiova, Monotonicity and the syntax of cât/câți degree phrases in Romanian 13.00-14.00 LUNCH BREAK Chair: Maura Cotfas, University of Bucharest 14.00-14.30 Rudmila-Rodica Ivan, UMass, Amherst, Absent Condition B effects: the case of Romanian PPs 14.30-15.00 Ioana Stoicescu, University of Bucharest, Grammatical Aspect Contrasts in the Acquisition of Romanian 15.00-16.00 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru, University of Bucharest 16.00-16.30 Naoya Watabe, University of Tokyo, Relation of manner of articulation to velar palatalization 16.30-17.00 Anca Dinu, University of Bucharest, A corpus-based semantic analysis of Solomon Marcus’ published texts 20.00 CONFERENCE DINNER (La Cena, Str. Maria Rosetti 1)